Delve deeply into the complex world of Advanced Synthesis and learn how to create your own evocative and evolving soundscapes, from scratch!

Our resident synthesist and electronic music performance artist, Richard Lainhart, is back with his extraordinary exploration into advanced sound synthesis. We asked Richard to put his amazing Buchla away for little while so he’d have time to create what we think is the “must have” video tome for anyone looking delve deeper into how synthesizers convert electricity into sound waves.

Richard carefully explains all the different kinds of additive synthesis from “ring modulation” to powerful “FM” and “cross modulation” techniques that can turn simple sine waves into powerful noise generators popular in the performance art and electronic music scene.

So if your looking to gain a deeper understanding of concepts that form the complex world of analog synthesis lend an eye and ear or two to this fantastic new tutorial by Richard Lainhart: Advanced Sound Synthesis.

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Excellent follow up to 'Analog Synthesis in a Digital World'. Even as a professional sound designer, this course opened my mind to utilising more esoteric synthesis techniques in a more creative and musical context.
Shame there was no further editions to this series, Richard Lainhart was a very intelligent man and a great tutor; who definitely had a lot more to offer on the subject of synthesis.

really good tutorial for people who like sound design. He goes over the fundamentals (advanced fundys) of synthesis. Best part is he teaches you so you can do this on pretty much any type of synth, virtual or analog.

more brilliant information for the musician that wants to understand what all those knobs, sliders and controls really do on a synth.... now I understand why sometimes a knob worx great and then at other times makes it sound like crap...and what all those controls actually do on my Logic synths... this guy really knows his stuff and how to explain it in an easy to understand way.... a must see for all synth musicians

more brilliant information for the musician that wants to understand what all those knobs, sliders and controls really do on a synth.... now I understand why sometimes a knob worx great and then at other times makes it sound like crap...and what all those controls actually do on my Logic synths... this guy really knows his stuff and how to explain it in an easy to understand way.... a must see for all synth musicians

This tutorial picks up where "Analog Synthesis in a Digital World" left off. After having a clue about how a sound is created, Richard dives into more stuff you can do with the created signal. Ring modulation, frequency shifting, and so on. So once you tasted the synthesized world, you can go on and eat up additional knowledge. These tutorials are made to be consumed together. Great job Richard!

After watching these tutorials my understanding of the Moog Modular V2 soared! Mr. Lainhart was smooth and precise in his delivery. The only thing I wasn't prepared for is his use of the synth in Logic, I wish he would have stuck to using the Moog. MORE PLEASE!!!

Excellent! I can only echo what other reviewers have said. This is a must see, must hear tutorial . . . a staple in any synthesists tool kit. Richard's clear, patience and well-paced delivery brings the vocabulary and advanced techniques of analog synthesis to life. The next time I teach a course in electronic music this will be required viewing!

I enjoyed this tutorial (and its companion) quite a bit. It's chock full of useful information, presented in a clear and mostly concise manner. On occasion, I did find myself wishing it would move along a little faster. This tutorial is well named. While its companion video covers ground with which most folks with experience in synthesis will be fairly familiar, this covers ground that is a lot less likely to be old hat.
The one thing both videos lack is a demonstration of how to put the various concepts together into full patches. Granted, much of the fun of synthesis is in experimentation, but it would still be useful to see, via demonstration, what others have already learned so that we can build on knowledge already gleaned by others. A tutorial that recreates patches of different types - basses, leads, pads, etc - from famous tracks would be interesting to me. Perhaps there are resources out on the net that already cover that ground - I've never looked - but it'd still be an interesting tutorial in the series. Heck, I can probably think of a dozen patches just from Pink Floyd's discography alone that would be interesting enough to deconstruct.
I'd definitely recommend this video to anyone looking to push their experimentation in analog synthesis into more advanced territory without relying purely on trial and error for learning how different modules function and interact.

Another essential tutorial. I have learnt so much from Richard - each lesson teaches a new sound or a new synthesis technique that open new doors for me in my tracks. It just shows how powerful the ES2 is, and its still just the tip of the iceberg! I can't wait for Advanced Synthesis II (please make an Advanced Synthesis II...)

Essential. Tutorials like this make me happy to be a subscriber. The way Richard communicates is considered and at a great pace.Wonderful at carving away the grey areas that people may have about sound-shaping..Excellent.

Another excellent tutorial by Richard, at first I was optimistic about buying this tutorial as I felt I was already quite comfortable with these synthesis techniques. However, after viewing the way Richard employs these techniques and the theory behind them, I have found many new techniques to excel my programming to the next level.